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America’s obsession with beef was born of conquest and exploitation.

Exploitation and predatory pricing drove the transformation of the beef industry – and created the model for modern agribusiness.

Why the Green New Deal fits right in with America’s energy economy.

Before free trade became a consensus, Friedrich List argued that U.S. industry should be put first.

A new insider account reveals how the Obama administration’s botched bailout deal reinforced neoliberal Clintonism.

Smith wasn’t warning about government intervention in the market; he was warning about government capture.

The function of the "innovation" buzzword is to sustain the myth that business genius creates society’s wealth.

Fifty years ago, Flood took a stand and paved the way for free agency.

The forgotten history of how our governments unconstitutionally segregated this country.

What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tells us about how wealth is really handed down.

Federal deposit insurance and the 1980s bank crisis.

Standard clothing sizes don’t exist.

A closer look at the geopolitics of weapons sales through the Cold War, and beyond.

A new book tells the history of America through its workplace struggles.

Business schools fetishize innovation, but their heroes succeeded due to manipulation of corporate law, not personal brilliance.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, students at America’s elite universities were treated differently based on the social stature of their parents.

If we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked.

How America's corporations lost their public purpose.

Without them, the economy of the American South would never would have recovered after the Civil War.

White women and the economy of slavery.

On Paul Volcker.

The individualization of risk that we often think of as part of neoliberalism already existed strongly in the early 20th century.

As history shows, efficiency without ethics can be catastrophic.

It’s time to adopt paid parental leave as a right.

Amazon, the Great Depression, and the fiscal history #HQ2 supporters miss.

It shows that labor still has some power, at least when public opinion is on its side.

In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face.

Most people think of Martin Luther King Jr. as a civil rights leader. What many don’t know is that he also championed labor unionism.

By reengineering the economy and society to their own benefit, Google and Facebook are undermining personal freedom and corroding democracy.

As long as Americans continue to flood into Mexico, the wall will do little to deter crossings.